O processo de construção das percepções sobre o HIV/SIDA entre os jovens: Caso do bairro George Dimitrov em Maputo

Abstract

The present work has as its theme the perceptions about HIV / AIDS, whose raison d'être is due to the fact that even when subject to the same information, individuals develop different perceptions about HIV / AIDS. In order to understand the referred scenario, we defined as an objective to analyze the process of building perceptions about HIV / AIDS. In order to achieve this goal, we used written and oral, secondary and primary sources. Following the ethnographic method, we used as techniques open interviews, semi-structured and description in presence. The data were collected in a peri-urban area of ​​the city of Maputo, in a universe of young people between fifteen and twenty-four years old, in a total of thirty respondents. Of these, fifteen did not attend school or attended until primary school, and the remaining fifteen attended secondary school. Data analysis was performed using interpretation and comparison. Its presentation follows a functionalist and structuralist approach. The analysis of the results obtained allowed us to build the preliminary conclusion according to which the process of building perceptions about HIV / AIDS, in addition to information, is conditioned by the level of education and by the social networks in which young people, residents of the Neighborhood George Dimitrov, are inserted. Thus, the variation in these constraints creates variations in perceptions about HIV / AIDS.